Prayers and Reflections in Season
Continue reading “The Mysteries of Faith”The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made
Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
into an object of affirmation and negation, when in
reality they should be an object of contemplation.
Responsive prayers by Margaret D. McGee, for use during Easter season or for All Saints/All Souls Day.
O God, who made the world and everything in it, we pray with one voice, proclaiming your presence to all the earth.
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A poem for Easter
by
Carolyn Temte
A litany for Easter services, by Margaret D. McGee.
Sing aloud, O mothers and sons! Fathers and daughters, sisters and brothers, rejoice and exult with all your hearts! Let us offer our prayers and thanksgivings with one voice, calling out the good news —
Continue reading “Sing aloud, O Mothers and Fathers!”A Poem for Holy Week
by Tom Robb
by
Margaret D. McGee
Tonight, we hear a love story. At the story’s end, our God and Creator is visible, real and present, at a supper table, among a circle of friends.
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Today is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. At the Ash Wednesday service this evening, our rector Dianne Andrews will draw a cross on my forehead in ash and tell me to “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” She’ll do that for every person who walks up to the altar. In response, I’ll say “Amen!”
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It's Lent, and I find myself in a process of letting go, and letting go.Continue reading “Letting Go, and Letting Go”
Responsive Prayers by Tom Robb, for use on the first Sunday of Lent.
With Lenten prayer and Lenten hope the Spirit beckons us on toward Jerusalem.
In Moses’ dusty footsteps we follow Jesus into the howling wilderness – comfort only a memory.
A Homily for Ash Wednesday
by
Margaret D. McGee
Greetings, fellow mortals.
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